Reply to: 5 worst places to live 4 in london

[sasguru]

Our flat management company holds meetings twice a year, we've used rooms at the Prospect of Whitby, Captain Kidd and Dickens inn. Dickens Inn is actually the most convenient but Captain Kidd seems to get chosen more often these days.

Ah Prospect of Whitby, that's the one ....

[IR35 Avoider]

Have you been to the Marquis of Whitby (?) ?

Our flat management company holds meetings twice a year, we've used rooms at the Prospect of Whitby, Captain Kidd and Dickens Inn. Dickens Inn is actually the most convenient but Captain Kidd seems to get chosen more often these days.

[bogeyman]

Very likely.

I liked the story in the local rag about someone who had a new roof put on his house.

Then made the mistake of going away on holiday.

Guess what wasn't there when he came back...

Sad really.

My wife is from the valleys and says that they used to be decent, proud little communities before chronic unemployment, alcoholism, drugs and despair took their toll.

Thank you Mrs. T. and the generations of crooks endemic in Welsh local government (Lab.)

[Bernard Common]

SAS I think I've found your cottage in Richmond. I must say I'm very impressed bijou but you can't grumble, location, location,location and all that. The tramps will be so jealous!

http://media.vivastreet.com/v1/3/f/9/photo_1346078

[bogeyman]

If the natives haven't eaten you.

Surprisingly popular with the mountain biking fraternity though.

Do you think you'd see piles of mysterious, rusting, abandoned mountain bikes lying by the side of the road if you went there? The odd rotting training shoe with something resembling the bleached bones of a human foot inside it?

[bogeyman]

Otherwise known as Merthyr Tydfil...

Oh no no no.

Merthyr is beyond the pale.

"recovering after the demise of the steelworks"

Merthyr's steelworks (in any real sense) packed up the 1930s.

How long does it take to recover?

Sadly, it never will. There is no point in having a town stuck at the head of a valley. Steelmaking was a point. Coal mining was a point. They are both long gone now - so there is no point.

It's sad, but inescapable.

Not just Merthyr, practically all of the valleys communities are pointless.

[bogeyman]

I can't believe that Nottingham was 7th worst. It's actually quite pleasant there as long as you stay away from Clifton and St Annes (the bits they explicitly focused on - sensationalist rubbish).

Not only that, I was in Hackney the other week registering the birth of my second daughter and it's cleaned up a lot recently to the point that it's verging on OK.

They should look at real crap-holes - not big name ones, like Waltham Forest.

I think these programs are always at least 12 months behind the times. Hackney isn't too bad these days, and, by contrast, Winchester has it fair share of scum and is getting scummier.

Given time, it will all even out and we'll live in a mediocre land of semi-scumminess

[TheMonkey]

I can't believe that Nottingham was 7th worst. It's actually quite pleasant there as long as you stay away from Clifton and St Annes (the bits they explicitly focused on - sensationalist rubbish).

Not only that, I was in Hackney the other week registering the birth of my second daughter and it's cleaned up a lot recently to the point that it's verging on OK.

They should look at real crap-holes - not big name ones, like Waltham Forest.

[gingerjedi]

Possibility. Wonder if the fall-out will reach the outer parts?

Off the subject a bit, my wife works for a bio-science company where they had a small explosion in a refrigerator that released a very small amount of low level radio active material, after 3 years of having men in full de-contamination suits trying to clean the building they (or their insurance company) decided they couldn’t take risk so they pulled the building down… it was only 10 years old!

[bogeyman]

Well the feral chavs are everywhere. In the nice places they just puke rather than stab.

Re: Feral Chaves

Anyone listen to Desert Island Disks on R4 this morning?

That stupid, arrogant, benighted woman Camila Batmanghelidjh, describes these misery-making scumbags as 'urban warriors'.

Camila B was, of course, born with a mouthful of silver spoons and is universally feted by the BBC and the feminist movement. Sorry but she is a CHUNT!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/...anddiscs.shtml

[sasguru]

It will all be worthless when a dirty bomb goes off

Possibility. Wonder if the fall-out will reach the outer parts?

[gingerjedi]

It will all be worthless when a dirty bomb goes off

[sasguru]

I used to go out in Richmond alot about 10 years ago - great place, top evening food and drink. Doesn't Mick Jagger have a place there?

Now it's full of feral kids puking on alcopops now.

Marlow, Bucks was another lovely place with real charm, rustic pubs with open fires.

Now it's full of feral kids puking on alcopops now. And the only open fires are the ones started in car parks and bins by the aforementioned scrotes.

I'm beginning to see a pattern here...

Well the feral chavs are everywhere. In the nice places they just puke rather than stab.

[hyperD]

I used to go out in Richmond alot about 10 years ago - great place, top evening food and drink. Doesn't Mick Jagger have a place there?

Now it's full of feral kids puking on alcopops now.

Marlow, Bucks was another lovely place with real charm, rustic pubs with open fires.

Now it's full of feral kids puking on alcopops now. And the only open fires are the ones started in car parks and bins by the aforementioned scrotes.

I'm beginning to see a pattern here...

[sasguru]

AssGuru, you are clearly affected by encelephatis. And I can see it's not your fault if your brain goes easily overflow.



Yes, you can. You lose even over the next 25 years.



It can be, of course. But you are clearly overstepping the first rule of thumb that any investor should follow. Spreading your investments to dilute the risk. Now, perhaps you'll be lucky and in 3 or 25 years your house is worth 3 millions. Perhaps, you'll be fired next year and have to go to work for McDonalds for 5 quid an hour and have to sell your house at half of what you paid for it because of the crash. Anything can be, and it might not be your fault (just as everything you have done so far is certainly not your credit, your scarce capacity of exposing your arguments is a clear proof) but just bad luck. One thing we are discussing: you are putting all your pot in one bet and that's what every investor with a little bit of salt would tell you. It's the most risky thing you can do. Now, **** 0ff and do what you want, I can't care less.

He he. And do enjoy your over-leveraged ex-council flat in the East End, won't you?
Meanwhile I'll be diversifying into other financial instruments while enjoying my mortgage-free house in a nice part of London.